During the week leading up to the Pittsburgh playoff game, some of the players had an issue with head coach John Harbaugh about the length of practices and whether the Ravens had been given the proper amount of time off to rest.

As a team, both sides came to an agreement but there were some tense moments with some players even threatening to go the players' union and the media.

For those keeping score at home, since the collapse at Heinz three weeks ago we have seen the Ravens form a circular firing squad with : Ray Lewis saying don't blame the defense; the defensive coordinator leaving to be the D-coordinator at Michigan; the offensive line coach being fired; Zorn being fired as QB coach, Flacco said firing Zorn could be regarded as dissing Flacco; and the players turning on Harbaugh by claiming they were being practiced too hard.

That is the same idiot reporter who got Billick's a$$ in a sling because he said he ran practices too soft. Three little bears anyone?

__________________(the ref) said I hit Sipe too hard. I hit him as hard as I could. Brian has a chance to go out of bounds and he decides not to. He knows I'm going to hit him. And I do. History."- - - Jack Lambert

__________________“If tyranny and oppression come to this land it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.” ― James Madison

"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty." - Thomas Jefferson

"The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first." -Thomas Jefferson
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." - Thomas Jefferson

Is all Harbaugh and the Ravens have is excuses? It's pathetic really. I have to say. While I found Brian Billick annoying, I don't remember him ever making excuses like John Harbaugh even after that game in 2007 I believe when we absolutely demolished them on national TV.